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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor

Plan to scrap high court signoff for assisted dying sends bill in ‘wrong direction’, say MPs

Kim Leadbeater with other supporters of the assisted dying bill outside the Houses of Parliament
Kim Leadbeater, centre, has said the assisted dying bill would have the strongest safeguards of any country in the world. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/REX/Shutterstock

MPs have suggested they feel misled by a major change planned to the assisted dying bill by its sponsor Kim Leadbeater, saying it could lose significant support.

One of the bill’s leading opponents, the Conservative MP Danny Kruger, said he believed the bill had the potential to lose its Commons majority over the change, that would see the removal of signoff by a high court judge and its replacement with an expert panel.

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